Chapter 194 Arrow Formation
Under Gu Luo's leadership, the Tongluo people fought a beautiful ambush battle. Although the five hundred light cavalry sent out to lure the enemy were almost swallowed by the Xi people, Gu Luo successfully caught a big fish with the loss of more than 400 cavalry. Although Su Zhi, the leader of the Ahui tribe, ate the bait of more than 400 light cavalry, he was lured away from the dense forest of Songshan and came to the open plains, and finally entered his ambush circle. The ambush was quite successful. The Tongluo cavalry suddenly came out from all directions with thunder, and caught the Ahui tribe's cavalry who were chasing him off guard. In just half an hour, the 1,000 Xi cavalry were almost wiped out.
Gu Luo struck while the iron was hot and led his troops to chase into the dense forest of Songshan, losing more than a thousand cavalry at once. The morale of the Ahui army plummeted. Even if it was relying on the dense forest, it would be difficult to resist the attack of the Tongluo cavalry. The Xi people began to escape, panic, and were defeated as a mountain.
The Xi people ran around like frightened beasts, with no organization at all. At this time, the war became hunting. Gu Luo believed that the Xi people had been defeated and the rest was just to harvest spoils. Faced with these Xi people who had no fighting spirit and were only concerned about running away, Gu Luo ordered various troops to pursue. The Xi people fled in scattered, and the people of Luo also began to pursue. At the beginning, the pursuit team was relatively concentrated. Later, the pursuit became more and more scattered, and it was completely like hunting in the mountains and forests. In order to chase the prey, the hunters were all dispersed.
One by one, the Xi people fell under the arrows of the Tongluo people. Many Xi people were trapped by the mascot and captured the prisoners. Many Xi people, women and children hiding in the forest were also discovered one by one. They all became spoils tied with ropes behind the horses of the Tongluo cavalry. However, some were still running for the desperate situation, most of which fled southwest.
The Tongluo cavalry cheered and chased after him. In their eyes, the fleeing Xi people were already their slaves. These Tongluo cavalry did not find that not far from the southwest, a solid camp had taken shape, and an army of 20,000 people was ready.
As he was running on the snowy road in the valley, Su Zhi's heart was bleeding. He did not expect that he would be careful. But in the end he was deceived by the Tongluo people and was trapped in a trick to lure the enemy. Although he successfully ate nearly 500 Tongluo Light Cavalry, he eventually lost 1,000 Ahui tribe warriors. Not only that, because of the defeat of these thousand warriors, the Ahui tribe was even more defeated and inadvertent. All the losses were lost.
Because of his carelessness, he almost compensated the entire Ah Hui team.
However, when he saw his son on the side, Su Zhi's expression finally improved a little. Fortunately, his son lived up to his trust and successfully brought the reinforcements from Sui State back. Although he was a little surprised in his heart, why hadn't his son reached the foot of the Great Wall yet, the general manager of Sui State had already led his army to come. But he still sighed in his heart. Fortunately, the army came in time, otherwise, the Ahui tribe would really exterminate the clan this time. The General Zhang next to his son had already said that Marshal Yi of the Shang Kingdom personally led a 20,000 elite army, and was now stationed at the west entrance of Erdaogou in front. As long as they arrived there, they could get rid of the pursuit of the Tongluo people. Thinking of this, he looked back and saw the leopard cavalry of the Tongluo people vaguely watching behind. The damn Tongluo people, and you will be beautiful.
Just behind the defeated soldiers of Suzhi, a group of more than 500 cavalry were chasing the soldiers of Tongluo, who were chasing the defeated soldiers of the Xi tribe. At this time, they gathered under the black leopard cavalry and screamed excitedly and chased them all the way. Seeing the golden deer flag in front of them, He Lu was the son of Gu Luo. He heard his father say that the Xi tribe uses deer as the totem, and the golden deer is the symbol of the most powerful Ahui tribe, and the three golden deer are the flag of Su Zhi, the leader of the Ahui tribe. Seeing the Sanlu flag, He Lu excitedly thought that Su Zhi was in front. As long as he put in more force, he could knock down Su Zhi, the leader of the most powerful Ahui tribe, the Xi tribe, and immediately take this head back. He will definitely be praised by his father, surpassing other brothers.
He Lu had begun to immerse himself in the joy of the upcoming victory, so when a scream suddenly sounded in the air, he was even slow to understand what it was.
The next moment, when there was a panic sound around him, followed by the closer sound of breaking through the air, and the numerous screams and wailing sounds, he finally realized what was going on.
Arrows, large numbers of arrows, and rainy arrows suddenly fell from the sky, with sharp stern voices, instantly covering the warriors of Luo who were chasing the Xi people.
A birch arrow penetrated He Lu's cowhide armor and penetrated deeply into his chest. He fell off his horse and fell to the ground.
He fell from his horse and fell into the muddy snow. He happened to see the rain of arrows falling down. One by one, he caught Luo's warriors off guard, and even had no time to raise their shields and avoid blocking them, and kept falling from his horse.
"I'm so stupid!" Lying in the mud, he saw a vaguely tall tower in front of the Xiren in front of him. He struggled to think about what it was. Then, he finally recognized it. It was an arrow tower. Many arrow towers, many.
"Why are there so many arrow towers there?" With the last question, He Lu's eyelids became heavier and his mind became more and more chaotic, and then he fell into eternal darkness.
The unscrupulous Tongluo cavalry who were pursuing the enemy was caught off guard by the long archers of the Huaihuang Army who were blocked at the entrance of the west valley.
The scouts arranged on the tops of the mountains on both sides of the valley had already spread the news of the arrival of the enemy cavalry through flags and chariots. The longbowers arranged on the Haogou fence and chariots at the entrance of the valley, and the longbowers on the hillsides on both sides of the valley were prepared. As soon as they appeared, they were immediately hit by a catastrophe. Five hundred Tongluo cavalry were shot in three consecutive times by more than 4,000 longbowers, and they were attacked by more than 10,000 arrows.
In the valley that was not wide, in this round of attack alone, they were almost submerged in the rain of arrows. The dense rain of arrows covered the heads of the entire cavalry. The Tongluo cavalry was confused and angry, and then fell one by one. In just a moment, they were damaged.
After the three-wheeled arrow rain, the Huaihuang Army did not issue another order to shoot. The longbowmen held their bows in their hands and quietly watched the blood flowing into a river in the valley, and the corpses were piled up like mountains.
More than a thousand Ahui tribes who had already rushed to the Huaihuang army all opened their mouths and stared at everything that had just happened in front of them in shock and fear. They did not escape the excitement of the birth of heaven at this time, but only the shock and fear of the five hundred cavalry being instantly covered by arrow rain. The hundreds of fierce leopard cavalry who had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground were destroyed in just a short moment. Five hundred cavalry and Luo leopard cavalry had not even had time to fight back, and they were already destroyed.
Su Zhi felt his scalp numb and his legs were weak. Looking at the Sui Army camp in front of him, he felt breathless.
As a horn sounded, the sound of rumbling war drums sounded in the Sui camp. Then the camp gate opened and a team of Sui soldiers stepped out of the camp.
Su Zhi and his Xi warriors all made a way out, and the team of Sui camp soldiers walked to the sea of blood covered by white arrow feathers with horizontal swords as if no one was around. Then they began to lift the sword without saying a word and cut off the heads of the Guluo cavalry one by one. Some of the Tongluo cavalry were not dead, but were injured, but the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield did not care at all, and chopped off one by one. The heads were cut off one by one.
At this time, another team of people came out behind them. They carried the baskets and picked up the heads of the newly cut Tongluo cavalrymen who were still steaming in the basket. Every time they filled the basket, they carried them back to the camp.
Another group of people came out, and they began to use baskets to recycle the arrows on the ground. The baskets of arrows were transported back, and even the broken arrows were not spared. Another group of people began to collect weapons from the Tongluo cavalry, some were peeling the armor and clothes of the Tongluo cavalry, and another group of people began to divide the horses of the Tongluo cavalry. The horses were peeled off, and the dead horses were dismembered into large pieces and then transported away by baskets.
In the end, only the Tongluo cavalry who were stripped were the headless naked corpses left.
Another team of Sui troops came over, carrying shovels, hammers, and wooden stakes.
Su Zhi was surprised to see that these Sui troops had formed rows of pointed wooden stakes on both sides of the valley, and then inserted the naked headless corpses on the wooden stakes.
Suddenly, countless crows were hovering over the battlefield, croaking and waiting for the beginning of a feast.
"Wait for Jin, the general will invite you." Zhang Jinsheng interrupted Su Zhi's loss of consciousness.
Su Zhi came to his senses, became more and more respectful, nodded and responded, leading his subordinates through the trest bridges on the moat ditch, passing through the gates of the camp gates, and finally reaching the rear of the camp.
"The head is cut off to record military merits. The corpse is erected on the wooden stakes to shock the enemy. As for the retrieval of weapons, armor and horse meat, it is naturally to recycle materials." Zhang Jincheng seemed to see the question in Su Zhi's mind, and led him to walk towards the Central Military Camp tent and answered with a smile. "Although our army is not short of food and supplies now, there is a saying that one bell is for one bell to eat the enemy, twenty bells. The recycling of materials on the battlefield is very important. On the battlefield, a dead horse divides the meat to supply military supplies for food, and its value is often greater than the value of a live horse in normal times."
Hearing this, Su Zhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart. No wonder this army is so strong. Just looking at their thoughts, you can understand that their strength is not without cause. At this time, Su Zhi became more and more admiring the Sui army that took the initiative to rescue, and even without doubt that this Sui army could defeat Tong Luo Army, who had just defeated him and fled.
On October 16th, General Gu Luo led his troops to defeat the Ahui tribe of the Xi tribe, killing more than 2,000 people and capturing more than 10,000 prisoners.
Gu Luo was proud and prepared to attack the other four Xi tribes eastward. After conquering the five Xi tribes, he turned around and drove these Xi slave troops to attack the dam. He had heard that there was a Sui force on the dam outside the Great Wall, which was extremely wealthy and was just right to grab one. But at this moment, he received several urgent reports, saying that several pursuers who were pursuing the defeated Xi tribe disappeared in the western part of Songshan, and no news was sent back. Several scouts who went to investigate were gone forever and there was no news.
There are several people who have lost the news, as many as seven or eight hundred horses, including Tong Luo's son He Lu.
At first, Gu Luo didn't care much, thinking that it was just the pursuit of the Xi people's defeated soldiers too far, so he didn't have time to contact him. However, the time it took him to lose contact was getting longer and longer, and the teams sent to contact him were followed by one after another. Gu Luo finally felt something was wrong. When the fifth scout team was sent out, at night, a scout with an arrow on his back escaped with serious injuries and reported him a shocking news.
A few dozen miles west of them, an army appeared there. They set up camps at the entrance of the valley and guarded the entrance of the valley. The flags they raised were not the Xi tribe, but the red battle flag of the Sui Dynasty! It is reported that the camps of the Sui people were as strong as the city, the flags were as strong as the sea. There were countless soldiers and horses, with tens of thousands.
The situation took a sharp turn, and the news of the Sui army suddenly appeared in Xi's territory made Gu Luo unbelievable at first. After sending several scouts in succession, the news brought back finally verified the result. Gukou was indeed the Sui army, with a number of indeed more than 10,000, and it was estimated that there were at least 20,000 people. Even the identity of the Sui army commander was found. The Han leader of the Huaihuang, whom he had been planning to grab, was now Yi Feng, who was granted the title of General, General Manager of Wuzhou, Governor, and Duke of Changning County. The army at Gukou was also the army of Wuzhou.
His brave son He Lu, together with more than 800 Luo Warriors, had his head cut off at the entrance of the valley. Only a headless torso was inserted into the sharpened wooden stake.
It's like falling from heaven to hell!
Gu Luo almost clenched his teeth, clenched his fingers into fists, and his joints had already turned white.
He let out a roar like a wild beast. "Gather all the warriors!"
With more than 8,000 soldiers gathered together, Gu Luo escorted more than 10,000 Xi prisoners and slowly rushed towards the Sui army formation.
Standing in the not too narrow valley, Gu Luo looked up at the unexpected army in the distance.
Standing high on the big flag at the entrance of the valley, a tiger flaunted its claws. On the side of the tiger army flag, there are also general banners with Yi Feng’s official positions written in Chinese characters, and general banners with only one big Chinese character written on them. Gu Luo did not recognize Chinese characters. For those square characters composed of horizontal, vertical, and horizontal, strokes, no one in the Tongluo Army recognized them. In fact, these Tongluo Leopard Cavalry were even fewer than Turkic characters created by the Turkic people. Gu Luo found a Tongluo who knew Chinese characters, a nobleman from Mobei who had been to the Central Plains.
"The general is in charge of military affairs of the fourteen towns of Wuzhou, Wuzhou Governor Changning County, Gongyi"
No one has ever heard of the general manager of Wuzhou, no one has ever heard of the Duke of Changning County, nor has he ever heard of a general named Yi. But the troops standing behind the camp in front of him were not fake and vague, but Gu Luo still saw some situations. With the strong camp, this army guarded the west entrance of this long valley road. Not only did they set up a large camp at the entrance of the west valley, they dug more than a dozen moats in front of the camp, several walls, and countless arrow towers. They also established two camps on the hillsides on both sides of the valley entrance, conquering high and completely occupied favorable terrain. Moreover, the number of this army is really large. Under the flags flying in the three camps, there are only a few people, with only 20,000 people. Moreover, the bright light reflecting the sunlight from time to time made Gu Luo's face look gloomy and ugly. The army has a lot of iron armor.
There are more than 10,000 people, all over the mountains and fields, boundless and shoreless.
The Sui army opposite is indeed everywhere. It is standing in black and full of three camps on the three sides of the valley entrance.
"Why is the army of Sui State here? Who is this Yi Feng?"
"I heard that Yi Feng is the leader of Huaihuang on the dam. He used to be a horse thief. Now he has defected to the Sui Kingdom and was named the general manager of Wuzhou. This Wuzhou is newly established by Huaihuang." An officer with Luo reported the news that he had finally found out from the prisoners.
"How is this possible?" Gu Luo shouted angrily. He didn't believe the result at all. "If Yi Feng was just a horse thief, how could he be appointed as a general and a county duke, and even let the emperor of the Sui Dynasty set up a general manager for him? Although I am not very familiar with the matter of the Han family in the Central Plains, I also know that this general may be empty, and this county duke may be empty, but this general manager will definitely not be empty. I heard that the Sui Dynasty has thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the Central Plains, but there are only more than 30 general managers. If Yi Feng was just a horse thief, how could he become a general manager of a state? And you see, do these troops on the opposite side look like a group of horse thieves? I have led tribal cavalry south several times and fought with the Sui Dynasty army more than once. Even the elite government soldiers of the Sui Dynasty may not be so well equipped. Look at the iron armor and look at the arrangement of this camp. This is absolutely impossible to be a group of horse thieves."
"Is it the elite military soldiers of the Sui Dynasty?" Someone said suspiciously.
"It's not impossible." Gu Luo's eyes were filled with a cold light.
"If they are really elite Sui army, then this may be a trap. Should we withdraw first?" Someone suggested. Although tens of thousands of cavalry advanced eastward this time, they were not elite soldiers. The plan to send troops was to train soldiers, rob some food, grass, cattle, horses and population, and then suppress and weaken the Xi people, so as not to take advantage of the opportunity to threaten the tribe when they head south next year. These Xi people took advantage of the opportunity to deal with the scattered sandy Xi people, but if they faced the 20,000 elite Sui army soldiers, they were not sure. Especially they did not know why these Sui people appeared here. If the Sui army was not all dispatched, it would be dangerous. If they were surrounded by the Sui army, none of these tens of thousands of people might be able to go back. Now, they have actually lost almost 10% of the troops.
Gu Luo stared at the Sui Camp, hesitating. He was worried that the Sui army was elite on the other side, but he was unwilling to give up the revenge of killing his son and went back like this.
"Maybe the Sui people were just bluffing, otherwise, if they really had more than 20,000 elite troops, why would they hide in the camp like turtles, and why wouldn't they fight?" Someone asked in confusion.
Gu Luo's heart moved and thought of this possibility.
Chapter completed!